Legal Caseworker - Street, United Kingdom - Notting Hill Genesis

Notting Hill Genesis

Verified Company

Street, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job Introduction:

At home with housing law? Join us as a Legal Caseworker**We are looking for a problem-solving housing or legal professional to provide specialist legal support to our general needs housing teams.

Main Responsibility:

You'll manage a varied caseload, giving advice on issues such as anti-social behaviour, community safety, tenancy breaches, disrepair and rent recovery.

You will lead on progressing these cases to court and representing Notting Hill Genesis in court for most of your case load.

You will be the point of contact for solicitors and barristers, working with the local manager and in house solicitor to consider value for money when instructing these.

You will work in the local housing team, so the work is fast paced and demanding.

Its important work that helps to create the safe and happy neighbourhoods that our customers deserve, as well as ensuring Notting Hill Genesis are managing legal costs to a minimum.

To do the job well you'll need up-to-date knowledge of housing legislation, ideally supported by an understanding of related areas of civil and criminal law.

You'll be experienced at evaluating complex housing and legal casework and handling conflicting priorities.

Your organisational skills and pragmatic approach will help you to find solutions that work for our customers whilst always meeting your budget and deadlines.

You'll need to build great relationships as you'll be working closely with staff from across the business, communicating with Housing Officers, external contractors, stakeholders such as social services and residents.

Benefits

In return we offer:

Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply)
Generous pension scheme
Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay we offer enhanced maternity and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply)
Employee assistance free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations
Health cash plan
Staff discounts we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance and much more
Interest free loans: season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan and training loan
Cycle to work scheme

How to apply

Applications close at 23:59 on
12th February 2023.

About the Company:

Notting Hill Genesis is now one of the largest housing associations in London and the south east. We own and manage more than 66,000 homes and employ around 2,000 staff.

We provide homes across a range of tenures and are committed to continuing to deliver housing that is affordable to all.

Our roots reach back to the 1960s when our legacy organisations were established by local people who shared a similar vision - to house west London's working poor, providing them a home from which to build themselves and their families a secure future.

Our people
We value our people and both respect and celebrate their differences.

We're proud to say that our colleagues come from different backgrounds, with varied outlooks and are from all over the world.

We encourage and are committed to diversity.

We know that when people with varied experiences and unique points of view come together, it makes us a stronger organisation and more able to help the wide range of residents that we serve.

We want all our colleagues to bring their full selves to work in a culture and environment based on respect and fairness, regardless of role, background or ability.

Our pledges

We are proud signatories of the G15 group's diversity pledge to encourage more diversity in the boardroom and at senior level.

The pledge on Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) diversity commits NHG to reflect the ethnic diversity of the communities we work in at all levels and particularly at senior managerial, leadership and board levels.

We are also a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer and have signed up to Harry's Pledge.

We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation.

To find out more about Diversity and inclusion at NHG, please visit our website.

Attached documents:

Legal Case

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Salary 35,907 to 42,739 per annum for 35 hours per week.
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Frequency Annual
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Job Reference nhg/TP/704/571
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Contract Type Permanent
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Contract Details Permanent
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Working Hours 35
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Location 2 Killick Street, United Kingdom
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Posted on 02 February, 2023
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Closing Date 15 February, 2023